Back in 1991, I heard about a movie called The Dark Backward. In this movie, Judd Nelson plays a garbage man that moonlights as an unfunny stand-up comic. His act career as a comic picks up a little when he grows a third arm out of his back. How would I not be interested in… Continue reading Why Judd Nelson Scares Me
Category: Scary Stories
Why The Hideous Sun Demon Scares Me
I was at work when I received a call from home. I talked to my wife for a little while and then my oldest daughter wanted to talk to me. She was about 4 years old at the time. We didn’t talk very long. As we wrapped up our conversation, she said, “Daddy, do you… Continue reading Why The Hideous Sun Demon Scares Me
Why Frogs Scare Me
The movie Frogs was released on my birthday in 1972 when I was turning 10 years old. I didn’t see it during its original release. But I remember seeing commercials for it on TV and ads in the newspaper. All the ads for the movie featured a frog with a human hand hanging out of… Continue reading Why Frogs Scare Me
Why Anitra Ford Scares Me
I loved watching television game shows in the early 1970’s. In 1972, CBS started showing The Price is Right, starring Bob Barker. This was an updated version of a successful show from nearly a decade earlier. Contestants guessed the prices of various products and some of the prizes they could win. I enjoyed seeing the… Continue reading Why Anitra Ford Scares Me
Why Knife-wielding Maniacs Scare Me
Back in the early 1980’s, I discovered the Golden Turkey Awards books and my search for bad movies began. It was also around that time that video stores began popping up. Before the days of Blockbuster Video, it seemed like you could go to these smaller video stores and find many of these Golden Turkey… Continue reading Why Knife-wielding Maniacs Scare Me
Why Caretakers with Big Knees Scare Me
Anyone hardcore fan of Mystery Science Theater 3000 should be familiar with the film Manos: The Hands of Fate. Manos is considered one of the worst films that ever appeared on the series. The premise of the show is that mad scientists have captured a test case and show him bad movies. The test subject… Continue reading Why Caretakers with Big Knees Scare Me
Why Corn on the Cob with Green Frosting Scares Me
During the early 200’s, my family and I discovered a new group of bad movies. This group of movies was labeled as “so bad they are good” to differentiate them from the films labeled as Golden Turkeys in the past. One of the first of this group was a Film called Troll 2. While I… Continue reading Why Corn on the Cob with Green Frosting Scares Me
Why Giant Apes Scare Me
In 1982 the film It Came From Hollywood was released. It is a documentary film with a compilation of clips from “Bad Movies” drawing heavily on the book The Golden Turkey Awards. There is a short clip of a film not covered in the book that I was unfamiliar with that featured a giant ape… Continue reading Why Giant Apes Scare Me
Why Casey Kasem Scares Me
A lot of the time when people hear the title of the movie The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant, people think you are talking about The Thing with Two Heads. The Thing with Two Heads was the film that gets more attention and is more familiar to the general public. But The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant has its… Continue reading Why Casey Kasem Scares Me
Why Ray Milland and Rosey Grier Scare Me
On the June 28, 1969, episode of The Rosey Grier Show, he sang a cover version of the Temptations song Get Ready. Around that same time, I was in the audience at a telethon in Jackson, Tennessee where saw Rosey Grier perform the song live. I really liked his performance of the song, and I… Continue reading Why Ray Milland and Rosey Grier Scare Me